The following roundtable grew out of a set of presentations at the  Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States (HOTCUS) conference at University College Dublin. The session provided the opportunity for those with experience of precarious employment as teaching fellows in American studies at UK universities to reflect on that experience. In doing so, the contributors used a combination of autobiographical and scholarly reflection to discuss issues of precarity, discrimination, inequality, career devel- opment and workload that provide a range of vital insights into the experi- ences of those temporarily employed to teach American studies, a category that is growing in number. As part of JAS’s commitment to publishing discus- sions of both pedagogy and early-career professional development, we hope that readers at all career stages will find thought-provoking information and ideas in the reflections that follow.

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圆桌会议

以下圆桌会议源于都柏林大学学院  二十世纪美国历史学家 (HOTCUS) 会议上的一系列演讲。这次会议为那些在英国大学担任美国研究教学研究员的不稳定就业经历提供了机会来反思这种经历。在这样做的过程中，撰稿人结合自传和学术反思来讨论不稳定、歧视、不平等、职业发展和工作量等问题，这些问题为临时受雇于教授美国研究的人的经历提供了一系列重要见解。 ，一个数量不断增长的类别。作为 JAS 致力于发布有关教育学和早期职业发展的讨论的一部分，